William Ripley Dorr

William Ripley Dorr

William Ripley Dorr was an American music conductor who organized the St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers in 1930 in Long Beach, California, USA. The choir appeared or audio performed in dozens of Hollywood films from 1935 to 1951.

Movies for William Ripley Dorr...

The Great Caruso
Title: The Great Caruso
Character: Vocal Ensemble (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
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Random Harvest
Title: Random Harvest
Character: Church Singers (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Choir (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Babes on Broadway
Title: Babes on Broadway
Character: Church Choir (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Singers of 'Adeste Fideles' (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Choir (as St. Luke's Choristers)
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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Rainbow on the River
Title: Rainbow on the River
Character: Choral Ensemble (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Choir (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Background Singers (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.